Politics | Election 2020
The Results Are In…
A scorecard on predictions from America’s Darkest Hours
Twenty four days. A little over three weeks.
That’s not a lot of time, so it is reasonable to expect that my confidence was brimming when, on December 28, 2020, I made my predictions about Donald Trump’s last three weeks as president of the United States. By some accounts this should have been easy! But see, rather than focus on what he would say, I tried to guess at what he, a malignant narcissist, might do.
In America’s Darkest Hours, six predictions were made about what Trump might do, or not do, during the last three weeks of his presidency. Sadly, the reality was much darker than even the Darkest Hours anticipated.
I will be the first to say it, in acknowledging my failure, that most of the predictions were abysmally off the mark.
I scored each prediction between 0–5, with 5 being awarded if the real-world played out exactly as described. Zero was given if on a different planet. Below: The score card results.
1. He will spend less time at the White House, and more time at Mar-a-Lago. Score: 1. The timeline of activities in the final month of the Trump presidency shows that he actually spent a lot of time at the White…
